Lily Tomlin: Johnny Carson Tried To Out Me

By
On Top Magazine Staff
Published:
March 09, 2013

Lily Tomlin believes former late night
champ Johnny Carson tried to out her as gay.

Appearing on cabler Current's Say
Anything, Tomlin, 73, corrected host Joy Behar when she said that
her guest had never been closeted about her sexual orientation or her
relationship with comedy writer and collaborator Jane Wagner, whom
she met in 1971.

“It is remarkably wonderful [that
celebrities can be openly gay], because listen I was on Carson one
night back in '73,” Tomlin said. “Carson said to me, knowing
full well what he was saying, he said, 'Well, now you've never been
married, have you?' And I said, 'No.' And he said, 'Don't you want
to have children?'”

“And you could hear the audience got
dead [silent], because in those days if a girl said she didn't want
to have children or plan to get married it was … something's wrong
with you.”